Greece: GReen Desalination
Brine is the wastewater effluent from current desalination technologies which
causes serious environmental damage. At the same time, brine contains highly
valuable “materials that are leaking from our economies today", fitting well in
the EU concept for the circular economy. While desalination is the
most promising solution to address and help overcome the competing and
increasing demands for water globally, brine is one of its, if not the most
negative side effect.
Meet Dimitris Xevgenos, the man behind GReen
Desalination, a start-up company which addresses this challenge and estimates
the economic value of one cubic metre of brine at 7€. GReen Desalination B.V.
comprises a Clean Tech start-up company that can close the loop of desalination
wastewater and thus create significant value. The company has recently been
invited to participate in the EIP Water Action Group "Renewable Energy
Desalination" as well as in the WssTP Working Groups "Water & Industry" and
"Resource Recovery".
GReen Desalination has a proven track record and a
combined experience of over five years in resource recovery and brine
management. Its breakthrough technology has been demonstrated by a Pilot brine
treatment system on Tinos Island in Greece in a project called SOL-BRINE, which
had received LIFE+ funding (LIFE09 ENV/GR/000299). Dimitris is currently
developing a business plan within the SME phase I project of GReen Desalination;
having been selected out of 15,000 innovative start-up’s, GReen Desalination
B.V. has recently moved from Greece to the Netherlands, where it is being
accelerated in the world-class accelerator STARTUPBOOTCAMP in the High Tech XL
Campus in Eindhoven. With the support of EIP Water, the company participated in
the event “Access to Finance for Circular Economy projects” on 16 September in
Brussels.
Dimitris Xevgenos can be contacted here
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SOL-BRINE is a Life + Environmental Policy and Governance Project co-funded by the European Community. The duration of the project is 39 months (Start date: 01/10/2010 - End date: 31/12/2013). The project is implemented in Tinos, Greece under the coordination of the municipality of Tinos and the cooperation of the associated beneficiaries National Technical University of Athens and Culligan Hellas SA.
The project aims at developing an energy autonomous brine treatment system for total elimination of brine, according to Zero Liquid Discharge principle (ZLD), being produced from Tinos seawater desalination plant. The project will result to high water recovery (>90%) and production of dry salt with market prospects, adding one more valuable output to the entire system.
The implementation of the project involves the design, development, testing, demonstration, optimization and evaluation of a pilot scale brine treatment system, contributing significantly to the development of full-scale brine elimination systems.
Total Project Budget: 1.209.689,00€
EC Funding: 604.844,00€ (50% of Total Project Budget)
Project duration: 01/10/2010-31/12/2013
With the support of the LIFE+ financial instrument of the European Union
Contact information |
Dimitris Xevgenos
(email: d.xevgenos@greendesalination.eu) |
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News type | Inbrief |
File link |
http://solbrine.uest.gr/index.php/en/ |
Source of information | via EIP Water News |
Keyword(s) | WssTP, EIP, SOL-BRINE, Green Desalination, Brine, wastewater effluent, Renewable Energy Desalination, Water softening systems • Deionization • Filtration • OFSY filtration system • Reverse Osmosis Desalinations systems • Water treatment applications for Artificial Kidney Units • Waste water treatment • Feeders, Control instruments, chemicals, consumable goods |
Subject(s) | ANALYSIS AND TESTS , CHARACTERISTICAL PARAMETERS OF WATERS AND SLUDGES , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , ENERGY , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , INDUSTRY , INFRASTRUCTURES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RIGHT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , SLUDGES , TOURISM - SPORT - HOBBIES , WATER QUALITY |
Relation | http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52014DC0398R%2801%29 |
Geographical coverage | Greece, |
News date | 23/09/2015 |
Working language(s) | ENGLISH |